Arts & Entertainment

The artistic director of the Montreal-based troupe Le Patin Libre (“free skate”) stresses that audiences shouldn’t expect anything like Merce Cunningham or Pina Bausch or Alvin Ailey but in an ice rink. Yet their work is to conventional figure skating something like what contemporary dance is to ballet. – The Philadelphia Inquirer (MSN) Source link

Backstage at Paquita, Paris Opera Ballet The end-of-year boom in box office earnings at the Paris Opera Ballet has been severely hit by strike action. Pierre Lacotte’s 2021 version of Paquita at the Opéra Bastille was programmed from 5 December until 4 January, and Alexander Ekman’s long sold-out Play at the Palais Garnier from 7

The company’s new global linear networks division will house its networks of news, sports, scripted and unscripted programming like CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV and the Food Network. A streaming and studios unit will house WBD’s film studios and streaming platform Max. – CNBC (MSN) Source link

“(The giant media conglomerate) said it is restructuring into two operating divisions, one focused on the legacy cable TV business and the other on streaming and studios, a move that could set the company up for dealmaking down the road.” – The Wall Street Journal (MSN) Source link

“While we did not secure all the improvements we had hoped for, the union was able to secure a number of wage and benefit improvements that went far beyond what SAM leadership initially offered,” the SAM VSO Union said. – Seattle Times Source link

Last month we reported on a depressing story, even by the already grim standards of artificial intelligence news: Book publisher HarperCollins was apparently approaching its authors about allowing their works to be bundled up and sold to tech companies as training data for AI, which isn’t really what we want to hear from a company ostensibly

To add sense memory to the penultimate scene, the prop crew cooks two pounds of bacon during every performance, using a box fan to blow the aroma onto the stage and into the audience. And every Wednesday there’s a BLT party to use it all up. – The New York Times Source link

YouTube just released some new stats that show how the service is being consumed on televisions, and the numbers are enormous. Watch time on TV for sports content was up 30 percent year over year; viewers watched more than 400 million hours of podcasts on their TVs every month.  This is YouTube we’re talking about,

“If the Marbles return to the Acropolis, the hole they will leave in the British Museum may be filled by perfect replicas. The Oxford-based Institute for Digital Archaeology uses robot sculptors following detailed computer scans to carve copies that are accurate to within fractions of a millimetre.” – The Telegraph (UK) (MSN) Source link